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Hi guys, today we're looking at the question.
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The observation that people acquire phobias of ancient sources of threat, such as snakes, much more readily than modern sources of threat, such as electrical outlets, can be best explained by...
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Okay, so ancient threats versus modern threats.
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Okay, let's start by looking at a.
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A is going to be classical conditioning.
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Classical conditioning is going to be the idea that you know that seeing or experiencing one stimuli you know that it's immediately going to be followed by an associated stimuli so something like if i see fire in front of me i know that reaching towards it would immediately be followed by a burning sensation so i'm not going to reach towards it and i don't think that's going to be really applicable looking at the difference between ancient threats and modern threats because any you know bad experience with an ancient threat, something like, as i mentioned, snakes or a modern threat, like an outlet, that might make you wary around either of those things.
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And i don't think classical conditioning is going to be different necessarily for an ancient or a modern threat.
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So i don't think it's going to be a.
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So then we have, oh, b and c are switched here.
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B is observational learning.
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Observational learning is going to refer to the process of how, i believe it's more applicable when we're younger, how we look at the other people, how they act, and we learn based off of that.
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So a lot of times we're going to be looking at our parents, for examples, of how to behave.
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And once again, i don't think it's really going to apply to the difference between ancient threats and modern threats, just because i can't think of any situation where your parents are clearly exhibiting way more increased phobias of ancient threats versus modern threats.
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So you might get a warning about both...